- From: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:56:32 -0400
- To: "'Ivan Enderlin'" <w3c@hoa-project.net>
- Cc: "'Sam Kuper'" <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>, "'Olivier GENDRIN'" <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "'Ben Boyle'" <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, "'Chris Wilson'" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Ivan Enderlin > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:26 AM > To: Justin James > Cc: 'Sam Kuper'; 'Olivier GENDRIN'; 'Ben Boyle'; 'Chris Wilson'; 'HTML > WG' > Subject: Re: <q> > > The problem is with the quote style. > Maybe the “best” way to work is that UA do not print quotes (with > :after > or :before classes, and content property), and only user overwrites > this > property with his own CSS. Or a secondary solution is that user writes > quotes himself in the content and let the CSS to default (i.e. no > quotes > are printed). I would be happy with your "secondary solution". > This is not a HTML problem but a CSS problem I think (or content > problem). I could not agree more. Simply put, quotation marks are either content or they are presentation; the original <q> proposal seeks to use a semantic element to control presentation in order to compensate with a conundrum with people's content. J.Ja
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